On mingw in order to keep the console you pass -Wl,--subsystem,console to g++

On 10/12/07, Greg Ercolano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> darby johnston wrote:
> >> If your app is invoked from a DOS window, that window will be used for
> >> output. If invoked from something other than a DOS window (eg. desktop
> >> shortcut), then Windows will open a new DOS window for you, and your
> >> app's output will be sent to that.
> >
> > But there's no way to keep Windows from opening a new console while still 
> > letting it use an existing one?
>
>         Windows /won't/ open a new window if there's already
>         an open DOS window the app is invoked from.
>
>         Windows will only open a new DOS window if the app
>         was invoked from a non-DOS window context.
>
>         I'm not familiar with msys, just the Visual Studio command line
>         compiler (cl). It works as I describe. Not sure if the msys/g++
>         compiler will do something different.
>
> > Msys is great, I do all my Window development with it; but I'm not sure
> > the users would like it so much.
>
>         If you decide you need the MS compiler, it is free..
>         'Visual Studio Express' is a free download, and works perfectly
>         well for both building fltk and compiling apps.
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